The living parts of an ecosystem, includes producers, consumers and decomposers.
What are biotic factors?
100
Shows the flow of energy in a food web or food chain.
What are arrows?
100
An "s-shaped" curve that displays a carrying capacity.
What is logistic growth?
100
The type of relationship were one organism benefits and the other is harmed (ex: heart worm and pet poodle)
What is parasitism?
100
The 7 colors in a rainbow.
What are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet?
200
water, air, temperature, soil, sunlight, rocks, nutrients, pH (acidity or alkalinity of water), etc.
What are abiotic factors?
200
Every food web or food chain must begin with this type of biotic factor.
What are producers?
200
A graph that shows rapid growth of a population and assumes limitless resources.
What is exponential growth?
200
The type of symbiotic relationship demonstrated when a plover (type of bird) cleans out pieces of rotting food stuck in the teeth of a crocodile.
What is mutualism?
Both species benefit. The plover gets a meal & the crocodile gets its teeth cleaned.
200
The number of squares on a chess board.
What is 64?
300
A system where there are exchanges between living and non-living things.
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
300
Squid are considered to be this level of consumer in the following food chain:
algae --> krill --> crabs --> giant squid --> orca
What is a level 3 or tertiary consumer?
300
When a population graph "plateaus"
What is carrying capacity?
300
A remora fish who harmlessly clings to the belly of a larger fish, such as a shark, in order to "hitch a ride" and feed of leftovers is demonstrating this symbiotic relationship.
What is commensalism?
300
The actor who plays superhero Spider-man/Peter Parker in the 2017 film "Spider-man: Homecoming"
Who is Tom Holland?
400
Producers rely on humans and other animals for this abiotic factor (gas).
What is carbon dioxide?
400
An omnivore that gains 280 kcal of energy from a producer that stores 28,000 kcal of energy is due to the following of this rule of energy transfer.
What is the 10% rule?
400
On a population graph, the axis that shows how often a population of organisms changes (days, years, months, generations, etc.)
What is the x-axis? (TIME)
400
An organism whose body is inhabited by another organism for the purpose of gaining nutrients and protection is called the _____.
EX: when cordyceps (zombie insect fungus) takes over an ant's body, the fungus is the parasite while the ant is considered the ______.
What is a host?
400
The Kansas City Chiefs No. 2 quarterback.
Who is Patrick Mahomes?
500
The term used to describe how living things (which consist of matter) contain energy (life).
What is biomass?
500
These 2 types of organisms are not "technically" included in food webs, but are a crucial part of an ecosystem's clean-up. Give an example of each.
What are decomposers and scavengers?
(mushrooms, fungi, bacteria - buzzards, coyotes, hyenas)
500
A type of population graph that shows two different species in a pattern of high populations compared to low populations over a period of time.
What is a predation (predator-prey) graph?
500
Competition is considered to be one of the types of symbiotic relationship. (TRUE or FALSE)
What is FALSE?
*Competition is a type of interaction between members of the same species or different species for access to resources.
500
This New Zealand singer and songwriter's real name is Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor.